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Re: Making new ends on recoil springs
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2014, 08:06:42 pm »
You cannot harden mild steel by heating and quencing .Spring steel do not heat it to the scaling point or else it will fail .A little bit past cherry red .

Oil is better for quenching because once water boils it lets in oxegon  .Sounds hard to believe but remember water is H2O .
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